US Admits Claims of Taliban Decline Were False
How hopeless is the Empire's project in creating a friendly regime in Afghanistan? So far, it's the same ripping success the Soviet Union enjoyed in the land that is known as the killer of empires. And all the spin and fabrication in the world isn't about to change that:
The claim that Taliban attacks are dropping in Afghanistan, the single piece of data backing up NATO claims of “progress” in the protracted occupation and indeed the centerpiece of President Obama’s re-election campaign speeches related to foreign policy, has turned out to be completely false, Pentagon officials admitted today. The data, which seems to have formed the basis for much of NATO’s occupation strategy, was ultimately the result of a “clerical error” that officials attributed to the Afghan military turning in certain forms late.This story is just priceless. It not only tells us the Empire's mouthpieces routinely lie to us, but most shocking of all, it reveals how laughably inept the puppet Afghan regime actually is. And if you need further proof, check this out. Warning: You may gag at the sight of your tax dollars being shoveled into a bottomless pit: "He's got his helmet on backwards!" "What kind of cigarette is that?"
4 Comments:
If an empire is going to die, at least it could do so with dignity! This is just ridiculous!
Pull the plug . . . NOW!!!
Regards,
David Smith
Tennessee
This is no surprise at all. Afghanistan was rigged to be a no-win conflict from the beginning. The last thing anybody in the D. of C. wants is a motivated, competent and uncorrupted puppet army that can rub out their adversaries in a fortnight. Once the 'bad guys' are gone, the military contracts to build drones and provide munitions, meals, and trucks will dry up. No contacts = no kickbacks to politicians. We can't have that, can we?
Slim
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This entire senario has played itself out time and time again in sun baked and forlorn hills of the swallower of empires, Afganistan. Rudyard Kipling wrote, more than 160 years ago, in reference to the quagmire that the British army found itself in, "when you're wounded and left on Afganistan's plain, and the women come down to cut up your remains, just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, and go to your God like a soldier."
Countless armies and countless empires, from Alexander to the Soviets have tried to conquer and hold this porcupine of a country, only to finally find themselves on the homeward march with their tails tucked between their legs, their country's coffers bled dry and their mouth full of quills. America will be no different.
"Cleeeeriiiicaaaaal eeeerroooor" - bet you can't say it without chuckling! - Dutchy
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